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anapest

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an·a·pest also an·a·paest  (n-pst)
n.
1. A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen.
2. A line of verse using this meter; for example, "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" (Clement Clarke Moore).

[Latin anapaestus, from Greek anapaistos : ana-, ana- + paiein, pais-, to strike (so called because an anapest is a reversed dactyl); see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.]

ana·pestic adj.

anapest
a foot of three syllables, the first two short or unstressed, the third long or stressed. — anapestic, adj.
See also: Verse
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Noun1.anapest - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
metrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm


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The solemn, heavy stresses in the British version ("The Iron Man came") move steadily towards the pair of anapests ("to the top of the cliff").
Poetry technicians are impressed that he did so in rhyming anapests.
 
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